Judges and Lawyers
To be appointed as a judge, a lawyer must have been licensed for at least this number of years.
Answer: What is ten years?
This type of wrong harms society, while a tort is a private wrong that harms a single person.
Answer: What is a crime?
Administrative law ensures that government decisions are this.
Answer: What is fair?
The two core elements needed for a criminal conviction
Answer: What is mens rea actus reus?
These two terms replace “custody” under the 2021 Divorce Act amendments.
Answer: What are parenting order and contact order?
This essential judicial principle means decisions must be based only on law and facts, not personal beliefs or public opinion.
Answer: What is impartiality?
Tort law uses this standard of proof, which is lower than “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Answer: What is the balance of probabilities?
Administrative agencies get their authority from the government through this constitutional concept.
What is delegation of power?
Criminal trials use this standard of proof.
Answer: What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
The 1968 Divorce Act allowed this form of divorce for the first time in Canada.
Answer: What is no-fault divorce?
In Canada, these organizations regulate lawyers at the provincial/territorial level.
Answer: What are law societies?
This type of tort involves harm done intentionally, such as assault or trespass.
Answer: What are intentional torts?
An example of a Canadian Commission of Inquiry is
what are TRC Calls to Actions, MMWIG, Nova Socia Mass Casualty?
These three broad types of crime include offences against persons, property, and this third category.
Answer: What is offences against social norms?
These are the years of the Canadian Divorce acts
What is 1968, 1985, and 2021 amendments
After law school, students must complete this supervised training period before licensing.
Answer: What is articling?
This is the legal term for when someone fails to do what a reasonable person would.
Answer: What is negligence?
This body does not make laws or punish anyone, but investigates public concerns and provides recommendations.
Answer: What is a commission of inquiry?
These are the four types of defenses in criminal law
Answer: what is self-defense, duress, extreme intoxication, mistake of fact?
Name one factor that influenced higher divorce rates in the 1960s and 1970s
These professionals can provide limited legal services without being licensed lawyers.
Answer: What are paralegals?
A party host allowing guests to get dangerously drunk and then harm others can face this type of liability.
Answer: What is social host liability?
Judicial review is different from this legal mechanism, which generally re-hears the case and looks for errors in the decision making process
What is an appeal?
These are the three types of criminal offenses
Answer: What is summary, indictable, and hybrid
Before modern reform, grounds for divorce included adultery, abuse, criminal acts, and this physical barrier to marriage completion.
Answer: What is failure to consummate the marriage?